Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
My normal softcopy Internet URL doesn't have the CICS TS 3.1 books. I
found the CICS TS 3.1 library on the Internet -- which carries the
manuals in both BOOK and PDF form -- at
http://www.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/tserver/v31/library/, but I
*really* don't want to have
Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
This was a while ago in a different age, prior to WLM and big real storage,
but I suspect the same situation could be a possibility.
..
This can still happen in GOAL MODE.
At the same time IBM introduced CPU-Critical,
This year's annual GSE conference, which includes streams on Large Systems,
Enterprise Security, Websphere MQ, IMS, DB2, CICS, Network Management and
Software Asset Management as well as several hands-on master classes, will
take place on Tuesday 4th Wednesday 5th October 2005 at the Stratford
Bill,
Here's my take on what you are after.
I have two files:
Old one
***
10 FRED
20 JON
30 SHEILA
40 JUNE
50 ALICE
New one
*** (changes)
10 FRED
20 JIM changes in cols 4-9
Thank you to all who replied. Just like Rex states we too didn't have the
money for two systems so a parallel sysplex was out of the question. Banks,
especially small ones, are notoriously cheap. We were lucky to have what we
did have. Only because the bank wanted to continue to run
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:43:33 -0500, Mike Liberatore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Our storage administrator is out sick and I got the job of adding new
volumes to our active SMS environment. I guess someone knew that had some
SMS expierence in the past. Anyway we share SMS across three LPARS ,I know
I suspect that's true of a lot of acronyms.
A long time ago, I worked on a very obscure minicomputer, and all of the
utilities were named after the then-girlfriends of the developers. The
semantic contortions they used to turn those names into acronyms were really
amusing.
-Original
(HLASM imposes a limit of 255 on return code. Very
stingy to save 3 bytes somewhere.)
Actually, it only (in a way) saves 4 bits somewhere.
Only the last 12 bits of the return value in register 15
appear to be used (they're certainly the only bits that
are presented in the standard system
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joe Zitzelberger
[ snip ]
Anyone that writes a 309k line module should be dipped in
honey and strung up over an ant hill next to the person at
Micro$oft that invented that damn paper-clip.
Wasn't that
Bob,
Closing/Opening a bunch of files on CICS Region that has been relatively
dormant all night will bring this on. Some one else mentioned the Monday
Morning affect, and this is part of it - but every morning.
The Page-outs probably go unnoticed because they are spread over a longer
period of
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:43 -0500, Mike Liberatore wrote:
so I also need to allocate a FDR file(?) on these volume(s)
Look in the FDR/ABR books for program FDRABRM, which you can use to
produce a model DSCB for ABR's use. The JCL will look something like
this:
// EXEC PGM=FDRABRM
//SYSPRINT
In a message dated 9/22/2005 4:32:10 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thank you to all who replied. Just like Rex states we too didn't have the
money for two systems so a parallel sysplex was out of the question. Banks,
especially small ones, are notoriously cheap. We
I always thought it came first; then somebody said: ?So, what
do we make it stand for??.
when the TV show The Man From U.N.C.L.E. first came out (1964?) - UNCLE
did not stand for anything (it may have been inteded to be an acronym, but
no specific words had been assigned)- only after
To all,
Thanks to all for good suggestions. I'e been looking at this some more and
the fact is that we were getting home grown page rate alerts due to a
couple factors.
1) Automation kicks off a bunch of stuff at 0500, 0530, 0600.
2) Our enterprising automation guy added a pagerate probe that
In a message dated 9/22/2005 7:54:59 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
say 5 min slowdown caused by a few ASIDS running
paging off the charts, a few days after the fact. Does Candle Omegamon
epilog keep that kind of detail?
RMF will report at RMF interval. Candle
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward E. Jaffe
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:38 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: URL for CICS TS 3.1 Internet Repository
My normal softcopy Internet URL doesn't have the
Hello,
I'm currently dealing with a big problem.
First I'm not a big specialist in zSeries tape storage management :-)
We currently have two sites with a distance about 300-400m.
They want move one of them away at ~60km linked with one DWDM fiber.
We are using a Peer-to-Peer VTS and it
Anyone have an STK SL8500 LIBGEN they would be willing to share with me?
We are installing one and I'd like to check a working one against the
one I am creating.
Thanks,
Chuck Kreiter
Lead Systems Programmer
State Auto Insurance
* This message was scanned by State Auto's mail server for
Look in the FDR/ABR books for program FDRABRM, which you can use to
produce a model DSCB for ABR's use. The JCL will look something like
this:
// EXEC PGM=FDRABRM
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSINDD *
ABRINIT CYCLE=cc,GEN=,RETPD=rr,VOL=vv,STORCLAS=ABRMODEL,
On 22 Sep 2005 05:44:52 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris
Hoelscher) wrote:
I always thought it came first; then somebody said: ?So, what
do we make it stand for??.
when the TV show The Man From U.N.C.L.E. first came out (1964?) - UNCLE
did not stand for anything (it may have been inteded to
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I haven't worked with EPILOG for a while but I don't believe that you can
get that kind of detail unless it has changed. You could hiper-link to
generic aux. storage information from specific screen sets but I don't
remember seeing the detail you may need to shoot this.
I currently use
WooHOO! That did it! Thanks Mike. The KEY was the including the key
field.
You do good work at 1:59am!!
Bill
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Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:59 AM
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Thanks, I will look at that. However, I'm not really looking for something
tied to a webserver, if it can be avoided. All I need is the ability to
programmatically act as a 3270 terminal and record the outputs that I get
from the applications that I run. And no, I don't really want to write
99 @ LPAR @ 1500 TRKS = one week
Data available from 09/16/05 05.47.00 to 09/22/05 10.14.00 (present) which
is typical of the 7 to 8 days we usually see depends a little on activity
and has shrunk some with the recent addition of several very large storage
processors which also chewed up a good
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:39:32 -0400, Kreiter, Chuck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone have an STK SL8500 LIBGEN they would be willing to share with me?
We are installing one and I'd like to check a working one against the
one I am creating.
Thanks,
Chuck Kreiter
Lead Systems Programmer
State Auto
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:37:16 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
My normal softcopy Internet URL doesn't have the CICS TS 3.1 books. I
found the CICS TS 3.1 library on the Internet -- which carries the
manuals in both BOOK and PDF form -- at
Peter Relson wrote:
(HLASM imposes a limit of 255 on return code. Very
stingy to save 3 bytes somewhere.)
Actually, it only (in a way) saves 4 bits somewhere.
Only the last 12 bits of the return value in register 15
appear to be used (they're certainly the only bits that
are presented
R.S. wrote:
Wouldn't be a solution for you to order IBM doc DVD ?
It's not very expensive ($5.00) and contains everything except LYxx
books. 'Everything' means z/OS and all IBM products for z/OS.
Already organized into shelves.
Of course, this is an excellent solution for my immediate
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:54:51 -0500, Bob H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark,
I took a look at RMF III and that report shows current aux store usage by
asid, but only goes back an hour or so. I am still wondering the best way
for me to shoot a ... say 5 min slowdown caused by a few ASIDS running
Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
My normal softcopy Internet URL doesn't have the CICS TS 3.1 books.
IBM has acknowledged the error in the Softcopy Librarian descriptor
file. They told me it should be updated by October 1. From what I
gather, other product documentation will be updated at the same
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Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:08 AM
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Subject: Re: HOD/HACL running on z/OS?
Thanks, I will look at that. However, I'm not really
John,
Yes, that's an alternative, but still a lot more complex (to me anyway) than
I need. I don't anticipate capturing user input; since I'm the user, I'll
make up the inputs myself. And composing TN370E packets into 3270 screen
images is definitely more work than I want to take on. It's
In the 90's I was responsible for a product (Outbound, now ASG-Outbound
Express, in case anyone remembers or still uses it) that used VTAM in batch.
We would issue an OPNDST for an LU. If the OPNDST did not complete in a
greater-than-reasonable amount of time, we needed to be able to cancel it
and
Using John's approach you would have to worry about things like keeping
track of each client session IP address and port number so you could support
multiple sessions from a client and during the replay, send the proper input
to the right (new) TN3270 session.
Your transparent proxy would also
You can use RMF II to monitor the system and write to SMF.
You need ASD(A,A).
Run the post processor and look for non-zero PIN RT.
Set the interval for around one minute.
Depending on the size of your shop, this should add 1-3% to your SMF data.
I've done this in the past.
-teD
In God we
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Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:27 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: HOD/HACL running on z/OS?
Using John's approach you would have to worry about things
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Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:49 AM
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Subject: Re: HOD/HACL running on z/OS?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Listers:
I am running MXI 4.3 under OS/390 2.10
When I issue an mvs command using the / option I only get
back 50 lines of messages.
I have RTFM'd to no avail.
I tried increasing the EMCSWAIT and EMCSFILL parameters of MXI but
same result.
I was trying to do a D TCPIP,,N,CONN command using
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
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Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:10 PM
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snip
Yes, the active connection(s) is not the problem I was
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Dave Low wrote:
Using DFSORT, is it possible to perform a sort treating lowercase
characters as uppercase? I expected there to be an option for this
but could not find such an option in the manual. I see lowercase to
uppercase translation of fields. That may satisfy the user but
probably
WRT proxy listener issues, that is way beyond my experience so I can't
comment there. However, thanks for the reminder that there can be rules
on the assignment of LU's from TCP/IP connections. I knew that but had
forgotten it. It would affect any program substituting for a TN3270E
client.
If your storage admin plans for growth or changing requirements, your storage
groups probably have extra volumes defined in them. You can confirm this by
issuing the command
D SMS,SG(group_name),LISTVOL
The ones that do not have addresses in the display are spare. Pick one,
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
09/22/2005
at 07:18 AM, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Wasn't that Microsoft Bob?
Microsoft Bob is now Mrs. William Gates.
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ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html
We don't care. We
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
09/21/2005
at 10:34 AM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Thanks for the pointer. The explanation is fairly high level, with no
implementation details. However, it appears that in the past
(pre-z/OS 1.3), the page data sets were simply initialized by filling
them
In
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on 09/21/2005
at 05:08 AM, Kenneth J. Kripke [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Apologies on the previous two incomplete posts.
Question: Is there a way to capture the results of an IP WHERE from a
REXX EXEC running under IPCS and store it in a REXX variable?
I don't think the
In
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on 09/21/2005
at 06:36 AM, Huckert, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have to agree with bill on some points but there are exceptions. I
am 28 and I have been a mainframe operator for about 5 years now and
I am looking to get into system programming. I was raised with a
Having just tried the same command under MXI on my system and getting
exactly 50 lines too has caused me to have a quick look at this.
The interesting thing is the last message that TCPIP throws out :
47 OF 237 RECORDS DISPLAYED
Coupled together with a two other heading style messages - this
Form a usually reliable source (at IBM) (exact quotation),
IBM has stated that it will be putting support for decimal floating-point
in hardware in future processors. That hardware will implement the
decimal formats and arithmetic that were agreed by the 754r committee in
2003 and which are
Hi,
Can anyone tell me about performance of 2 x 2105-F20 with PPRC (v1 or v2)
using 2 or 4 escon cables between them?
At my mind I have that 4 is better than 2, alternate physical path etc...,
but any real expirience.
Or there are a Redbook about?
Thanks
Carlos Alberto Bodra
Sao Paulo - SP -
Hello All,
A need a quick consciences on installing websphere applications and some
non-IBM products on the mainframe Z/os 1.4
Should I use Z/OS USS only.
Or
Install LINUX on Z/OS and install the products on LINUX.
Thanks...
If you can install LINUX under z/OS, please do so and tell all of us how you
did it. But so far Linux runs in an LPAR or under z/VM.
But my feelings about your real question (to use z/OS USS or something else) is
to use what you are familiar with and what your management is familiar with.
Going
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HRC-Alexandria/EDS
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:00 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: WEBSPHERE: install on Z/OS USS or Z/OS LINUX ?
Hello All,
A need a
Correct I meant Z/VM. But you point on cost is good.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of McKown, John
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:15 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: WEBSPHERE: install on Z/OS USS or Z/OS LINUX ?
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In God we Trust!
All others bring data!
-- W. Edwards Deming
In a followup in MVS-OE:
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URL: http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?MVS-OE.42223
an IBM employee has suggested:
If you want autoconversion in ishell (oedit, obrowse, rexx,
or anything other than LE enabled C programs)
Interesting (first) point - the support costs are a no brainer.
From what I can gather, Linuz on zSeries (as in little zed) has been a
spectacular failure in this part of the world.
Wonder if issues such as this (which I hadn't even thought of) contribute to
the inertia.
Shane ...
From: McKown,
Starting with SHOWzOS 712 beta some user discover some problems related to
bad macros IGDSGCL and IEFSSSA.
Not to say the PLX code works just fine. I still wonder why SHOWzOS is still
the first
Roland Schiradin
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IT Betrieb - DB/DC
Tel.
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:24:17 -0400, Clark, Kevin D, HRC-Alexandria/EDS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Correct I meant Z/VM. But you point on cost is good.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of McKown, John
Sent: Thursday, September 22,
From what I can gather, Linuz on zSeries (as in little zed) has been a
spectacular failure in this part of the world.
...
It's LINUX.
But, I know of a couple of places that have had great success.
One of them being the Government of Quebec.
As with anything, you need people who can find their
My favorite is still ISPF. It's predecessor, SPF, expressly stood for
Structured Programming Facility. Not content merely to add Interactive, the
Hot Button Brigade (tech savvy cousins of the Political Correctness Police)
also re-engineered 'SP' to System Productivity.
This is not be confused
Skip Robinson wrote:
My favorite is still ISPF. It's predecessor, SPF, expressly stood for
Structured Programming Facility. Not content merely to add Interactive, the
Hot Button Brigade (tech savvy cousins of the Political Correctness Police)
also re-engineered 'SP' to System Productivity.
I'm not sure if understand all the issues here, but like the Far Side dog
who only recognizes his own name, I do comprehend 'ESCON' and '~60km'. We
tried ESCON over DWDM at ~100km. It was awful. Given that the published
limitation for ESCON is ~10km, I would be very wary of counting on it to
At the opposite extreme we have TSO, which as far as I know still stands
for 'Time Sharing Option' but has not shared time or been optional for
decades. I guess that's how you know when you're no longer strategic:
nobody bothers to rebirth your obsolete acronym. ;-(
.
.
.
JO.Skip Robinson
'tis indeeed.
Freudian slip - I was compiling a kernel in another session at the time I
wrote that.
Linux + vmlinuz - Linuz
Not bad - maybe I should copywrite that ...
Shane ...
From: Ted MacNEIL
...
It's LINUX.
--
For
ibm-main wrote:
Not bad
Agreed.
- maybe I should copywrite that ...
Or better yet, copyRIGHT it.
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From: Edward E. Jaffe
Or better yet, copyRIGHT it.
Nah - only Linus can get away with that.
In the open/free world copyleft (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html)
is the go.
Shane ...
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Skip Robinson wrote:
My favorite is still ISPF. It's predecessor, SPF, expressly stood for
Structured Programming Facility. Not content merely to add Interactive, the
Hot Button Brigade (tech savvy cousins of the Political Correctness Police)
also re-engineered 'SP' to System Productivity.
Time Sharing Option
Terribly Slow Option
MVS
Man Versus System
Moves Very Slowly
-teD
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All others bring data!
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From: Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu Sep 22 19:00:00 CDT 2005
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
Time Sharing Option
Terribly Slow Option
MVS
Man Versus System
Moves Very Slowly
-teD
In God we Trust!
All others bring data!
-- W. Edwards Deming
I'm curious how other shops are 'configured'. We currently use the CA-MII
( Multi-Image Integrity ) and
CA-MIA ( Multi-Image Allocation ) products. We are having a
discussion/issue regarding the ENQ
Processing Mode of CA-MII, which can be either 'SELECT' or 'ALLSYSTEMS.
Currently, we use
the
(Sorry to come in late, but I have been out of the office.)
I have a copy of the:
Program Contribution Form
Type III (IBM Employee)
for:
Title of Program:
Houston Automatic Spooling Priority SYSTEM - II
Program Order Number:
360D-05.1.014
Author:
Tom H. Simpson
Robert P. Crabtree
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